payment to farmers, unconnected to particular products. Support prices for several key products, including milk and butter, are to be cut—that should mean European prices eventually falling towards the world market level. Cutting the link between subsidy and production was the main objective of proposals put
forward by Mr. Fischler, which had formed the starting point for the negotiations.
The CAP is hugely unpopular around the world. 62) It subsidizes European farmers to such an extent that they can undercut farmers from poor countries, who also face trade barriers that largely exclude them
Section IV Translation (20 points)
Directions:
In this section there is a passage. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. 61) European farm ministers have ended three weeks of negotiations with a deal which they claim represents genuine reform of the common agricultural policy, but there exists a doubt about whether it can start the Doha world trade negotiations. On the face of it, the deal agreed in the early hours of Thursday June 26th looks promising. Most subsidies linked to specific farm products are, at last, to be broken—the idea is to replace these with a directfrom the potentially lucrative European market. Farm trade is also a key feature of the Doha round of trade talks, launched under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001. Developing countries have lined up alongside a number of industrial countries to demand an end to the massive subsidies Europe pays its farmers. 63) Several Doha deadlines have already been missed because of the EU’s intransigence (不妥协), and the survival of the talks will be at risk if no progress is made by September, when the world’s trade ministers meet in Cancùn, Mexico. But now even the French seem to have gone along with the deal hammered out in Luxembourg. Up to a point, anyway. The package of measures gives the green light for the most eager reformers to move fast to land under cultivation. These let-outs are potentially damaging for Europe’s negotiators in the Doha round. They could significantly reduce the cost savings that the reforms might otherwise generate and, in turn, keep European expenditure on farm support unacceptably high by world standards. 65) More generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claim, but close analysis of what is inevitably a very complicated package might confirm the skeptics’ fears. Section V Writing (20 points)
Directions:
In this part, you are asked to write a composition according to the information below. You should
write more than 150 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)
近两年，香港的大学纷纷制定优惠政策，开始在内地招收学生，一些内地学校的尖子生
也开始选择上香港的大学，这引起了内地大学的恐慌。请你对此发表看法。
implement the changes within their own countries. But there is an escape clause of sorts for the French and
other reform-averse nations. They can delay implementation for up to two years. 64) There is also a
suggestion that the reforms might not apply where there is a chance that they would lead to a reduction in
