UE 2000 Section C 36-47
Q |
Ans |
Explanation |
Skills tested |
36 |
D |
．Even so・ is a discourse marker showing a contrast. Although SAR police or Customs and Excise officers don・t have seizure of pirated goods, illegal trade still continues. |
Discourse marker |
37 |
C |
．fake・ and ．genuine・ have opposite meaning |
Context |
38 |
A |
The sign of customers snapping up illegal copies of the latest movies at MTR stations is the evidence that fake copies sellers do not need to have intensive detective work to locate pirate outlets. |
context |
39 |
B |
The first sentence emphasis on ：difficult；, the word ：but； turn the next sentence into an opposite attitude. Track down of factories is difficult while stop the open hawking of pirated copies is relatively less difficult (ought to be simple matter) |
Comparison Register |
40 |
D |
Although the no of pirated discs intercepted by the Customs has increased, the situation is still continuing (illegal trade continues to flourish). Hence, the answer is the Customs is still not the winner meet the victory |
Register Parallelism |
41 |
A |
Since the illegal trade continues to flourish, so it leads to the local film industry and genuine suppliers shoulder the heavy cost. |
Cause and effect relationship |
| 42 | C | ：Pirates do 10 times more business than legal companies； is used to elaborate the way ：it was impossible to make a profit in an industry；. | Adjective Clause |
| 43 | B | ：As legitimate enterprises close, pirates will go on making good profits.； ：As； means ：because； which is the discourse marker to show the adverb clause of reason. . | Cause and effect relationship |
| 44 | C | Hong Kong will be
accused of not ：doing enough to stamp out a trade；
and ：hurting
trading relations with other nation；. ：As well as； is the conjunction that two phrase together. |
Parallelism Context |
| 45 | A | The sentence is about the recent study by US Business Software Alliance. ．1 billion in lost sales by 2001・ showed that the study is about cost. Only A matches the sentence. | Context |
| 46 | D | ：However, the raids were carried out only after complaints from a delegation of TV programs；. It is the extension of the previous sentence that is about something negative. Answer D told us something about the pirated discs, which is bad thing. It matches with the latter sentence. | Context |
| 47 | A | Since the previous sentence describes Japan, only answer A matches with the content. | Context |