Passage 1

Coca-Cola ’ s advance into orange soda is bad news for Sunkist, which holds a 1.5% share of the soft drink market, and Crush (around 1%) Coca-Cola began testing Minute Maid Orange Soda in Canada last summer. Some analysts think it will quickly challenge Sunkist as the top-selling orange drink.

The sleeper among the products might turn out to be Cherry Coke, which contains no fruit juice at all. Emanuel Goldman, a beverage analyst with Montgomery Securities in San Francisco, says Cherry Coke has captured shares of 4% to 8% in test markets. The drink probably won’t do as well when it is rolled out nationally, since consumer coupons and price promotions have been helping it along. But Goldman believes Cherry Coke could eventually displace Dr Pepper as the nation’s fifth-best-selling soft drink.

36. Why is Cherry Coke described as the “sleeper”?

37. What is a test market? How do you understand “price promotions” here?

38. Which brand occupies the fifth place on the soft drink list at present?

Passage 2

The most visible result of this buoyant market in both centres is a plethora of new multi-storey commercial and residential buildings. In Abu Dhabi, these projects are let through the Khalifah committee or the Department of Social Services to local consultants, but in Dubai there is more of an international spread.

Building work apart, consultants predict a fairly wide spread of projects. “ We expect the market to remain buoyant for the next couple of years. There is a fair bit of work at Mina Zayed coming up, a fair bit of road-working on the island and the hinterland, and we expect some airport development to rear its head in the not too distant future, ” says one long-established Abu Dhabi-based consultant.

39. Who are renting the multi-storey commercial buildings in Abu Dhabi and Dubai?

40. What is the prospect of new building projects?

41. Please explain “rear its head” and “Abu Dhabi-based” in the last sentence.

五、正误判断题（本大题共 10 小题，每小题 2 分，共 20 分）

Passage 1

Specifications are detailed descriptions of the goods to be sold. They include the composition, content, purity, strength, size, etc. of the goods.

The same kind of goods might also be classified into different grades, such as large, medium, or small; Grade A, Grade B, or Grade C. Every grade has its own specifications. These grades are given by commercial chambers or relevant government departments or informally by the producers or the traders themselves. There are no uniform international grades for goods, and they are not so formal as standards.