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It is lunchtime at the Chateau de Bellerive, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan’s Home on Lake Geneva. Hisguests are being served the elegant food prepared by. the prince’s kitchen. But the prince and his wife Catherine are content to have a dish of brown rice and an accompanying salad. Can it be that they are not hungry, or is the prince making a gesture, that although he is a rich man he has humble tastes No one is so impolite as to ask, but the guests may talk about it later. Sadruddin was disappointed that his father did not name him as the next leader. But father apparently believed that his son lived only for pleasure. Sadruddin’s much publicized life with his first wife Nina, a model, may have made it seem so. "Myths and labels become attached to people," he remarked later, "giving them a reputation that does not always correspond to reality." It could be that his, father had mixed UP Sadruddin with his half-brother Aly, who was briefly married to Rita Hayworth, a Hollywood star, and was indeed a tearaway. In the event, when the Aga Khan died in 1957, the crown, and the title Aga Khan IV, went to Sadruddin’ s nephew, the present bolder. Sadruddin was then 24. At that age disappointments can usually be overcome, particularly if, like the prince, you have advantages. He had had an elitist education, at Le Rosay in Switzerland and Harvard. He spoke several languages, including French from his mother,, a Parisian, and Persian and English from his father. The amount of his personal fortune was unknown but it was certainly adequate. With these assets to sustain him, Sadruddin discovered what was to be his life’s work, to improve the lot of the world’s refugees, Like many people who came to do good work for the United Nations, Sadruddin, drifted into the organization, rather than setting out to make it his career. As a student he started an art collection that eventually became one of the finest in private hands. He became concerned about the fate of Nubian statues threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, ’and in 1958 was taken on as an adviser by UNESCO, the UN’s cultural branch. He discovered that the dam not only threatened Nubian statues but that some 100,000 Nubian people were being moved from their traditional homes. People were clearly more important than statues, however precious. Those Nubians were eventually resettled in Egypt, albeit in inferior territory. In 1959 Sadruddin became an assistant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and applied to the job the code of morality and responsibility of his faith. He was made deputy high commissioner in 1962, and in 1965 at the age of 32, was appointed to the top job. He was good at getting rich countries be generous. Perhaps only a rich man can be a successful beggar. The elder George Bush was a friend: they played tennis together. Mr. Bush found the urbane European an agreeable contrast to his Texas circle. Sadruddin stepped down after 12 years, the longest any refugee chief has held the job. He seemed the favorite to become the UN’s secretary general in 1981, but the Soviet union vetoed his candidature, claiming he was too pro-Western, and vetoed him again in 1991. Around that ’time stories circulated that the prince was a secret agent for the British, using his job as a cover for the intelligence gathering. It was almost certainly nonsense, but the Russians may have believed it. Sadruddin insisted that he had equal sympathies With Eastern and Western peoples. His description of himself as a "citizen of the world" was a fair one. The reason he bore this second big disappointment was the realization of how little had been done for the world’s poor. In a speech not long ago he said that in 80 countries people’s incomes were lower than they were ten years earlier.. The numbers of people in poverty, earning less than $1 a day, was stuck at 1.2 billion. His meal of brown rice was a heart-felt gesture. Give him that. The word "tearaway" in Line 6 of Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A. an intelligent person
B. an irresponsible person
C. a mysterious person
D. a famous person

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The toughest patches on Chicago’s South side offer few havens for children. Outside are flying bullets and police sirens; inside are poor teenage mothers and’ (occasionally) fathers. Yet here, in the shadow of a condemned public-housing block, a cluster of pastel-colored buildings contains what many experts see as a model for early childhood education in America. The Educate Centre, run by a non-profit group called the Ounce of Prevention Fund, offers an unusual mixture of care and education to 153 black children, from six weeks to five years old, who have little other stability in their lives. The benefits of early education are well known. It helps to determine how long children stay in high school, whether they turn to crime, and how quickly they will find a job. A study by the National Institute for Early Education Research says that every dollar invested in good, full-day, year-round pre-school education (which is rare) yields a $ 4 return in the long run to children, their families and taxpayers. "There’s a huge cost-benefit advantage just in decreased jail time," says James Heckman, an economist at the University of Chicago. With state budget so tight, pre-school programmes are suddenly vulnerable. New York state, for one, is threatening to cut universal pre-school education, and programmes are threatened in Tennessee and Massachusetts, among others. Ten states cut pre-school funding in 2002. A few states hope to make progress, though: the governor of Illinois wants to set up a programme for poor children deemed at risk. He hopes it will grow, over three years, to cover 25,000 children at a cost of $ 90, though a huge state budget deficit may squash his plans. Congress is now considering reauthorization of the Head Start programme, which provides educational, nutritional, medical and social services to the poor three and four year olds, and their families. The Bush administration is proposing changes—improvements, it says—that will shift accountability for Head Start to the states, where the money is spent. But the public-funded pre- kindergarten programmes now available in 40-odd states vary greatly in quality and in the numbers they serve. Some early-schooling advocates worry, therefore, that a shift of Head Start to the grates will undermine national standards. They also fear that cash-strapped states will cut back other pre-school programmes further if they gain control over Head Start, or that money will no longer he earmarked for extra food and health checks. "If kids are hungry or can’t see, they’re never going to learn," says Harriet Meyer, the president of the Ounce of Prevention Fund. The future of Early Head Start, which serves children from birth to three, is equally uncertain. Head Start currently provides about $7,000 for each child, and Early Head Start provides $8,000-10,000. The Educare Centre spends an average of $13,000 for each child by combining Head Start and Early Head Start cash with state money for other programmes. Compared with the hodgepodge of pre-school activities that millions of American parents cobble together, the Educare Centre is admirably integrated. By pooling money from different sources, it can hire plenty of educated teachers and pay them well; it takes children for a full day, all year round; providing a safe and cheerful place in which to play and learn Why are there not more such places The reasons include turf squabbles and jealousy among other child-care groups, unwillingness to believe that existing programmes need improving, bureaucratic hassles over families’ eligibility for funding, and lack of money. Researeh also shows that many Americans think pre-school children should be at home with their mothers. But that is a vanished age. Nowadays, when 73% of American mothers work, including 61% who have children under three, efficient and affordable child care is essential for employee-productivity as well as for the good of the children themselves. Adele Simmons, of Metropolis 2020 in Chicago, says it is time to invest in children as part of the nation’s social infrastructure. "The increase in funding for roads and bridges has been far greater than the increase in funding for kids," she says. "Kids who enter school not ready to learn never catch up. \ What is likely to happen if Head Start programme is shifted to the states

A. The quality of the programme will be generally improved.
B. More similar programmes might be cancelled.
C. The state will cut the funding of this programme.
D. The states will place emphasis on nutritional and medical services.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. How long has Mrs Miller been an HR officer

A. 5 years.
B. 7 years.
C. 8 years.
D. 9 years.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. Before going to the interview, you should review the following EXCEPT ______.

A. the original advertisement that you answer
B. the correspondence from your prospective employer
C. photocopies of your letter of application
D. brief personal information of the prospective employer

Questions 6 to 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the news. What was the role the Afghan men were allegedly playing

A. Seeking possible buyers of the weapon.
B. Arms dealers.
C. The potential buyers of the weapons.
D. Implicated in the transfer of money in the sal

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