24.
(A)the later
(B)the latest
(C)the latter
(D)the former)

20.(A)identified

21.(A)ones

22.( (A) sequential

23.(A)scattered (B)dispersed (B) voluntary (B) categorized into (B)but (B) immersed (B)that (B) cardinal (B) degenerated (D) converged) (D) autonomous) (D)accounted to) (D)or) (D) intrigued) (D)them) (D) fortuitous) (b)Though negotiations directly between MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and IBM produced agreements to allow _24— to enter Japan, and soon to manufacture there, but only at the -25 that IBM would open its patents to any Japanese firm desiring them, at very favorable royalty rates. Thus the Japanese companies brought together by MITI could enter the race with a strong advantage: they could build computers _26— with IBM’s systems, and the government would finance majority percentages of the research costs needed to build Japanese computers. The work was _27— organized and Toshiba, with its technological agreements with GE, was paired with NEC and that firm’s overseas partner Honeywell. As a result, “—28_, the alliance had 20% of the [Japanese] computer market，” observes one study of the unfolding race. But “Toshiba’s models did not sell well, and by the 1980s, Toshiba, no longer willing to bear the high cost of producing mainframe computers... decided to drop out... and —29 its own efforts into small business computers and minicomputers.”

25.(A,stipulation (B) abdication (C) abrogation (D)pro vision)

26.(A)irreconcilable (B)compatible (C) converged (D)perverted)

27.(A)unconscionably (B) presumptuously (C)scmpulously (D) impudently)

28.(A)Combining (B) To combine (C) Having combined (D) Combined)

29.(A)tunneled (B) hampered (C) dumped (D) impeded) (c)All languages are works in progress. But English’s globalization, 30_ in the history of languages, will revolutionize it in ways we can only imagine. In the future, there could be a tri-English world, —31— in which you could speak a local English-based dialect at home, a national variety at work or school, and international Standard English to talk to foreigners. With native speakers a shrinking minority of the world’s Anglophones, there’s a growing sense that students should stop trying to _32 Brighton or Boston English, and embrace their own local versions. Researchers are starting to study non-native speakers' “mistakes”一“She look very sad, for example—as structured grammars. In a generation’s time, teachers might —33— be correcting students if they say “a book who” or “a person which.” A famous linguist asks why some Asians, who cannot articulate the “th” sound very —34—, should spend hours trying to say “thing” instead of “sing” or “ting”，International pilots, she points out, already pronounce the word “three” as “tree” in radio dispatches, —35_ “tree” is more widely comprehensible.

30.(A, unprecedented (B) unpretentious (C) impoverished (D) imperative)